3198.0 Health Policy, Practice and Regulation

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
The session explores a number of extrinsic factors and their influence on policy and ultimately clinical practice. The major focus is on cost of services for Medicare patients with expanded services and the process of testing for licensure.
Session Objectives: Identify factors that contributed to budget increases assigned to chiropractic costs in the budget neutrality analysis of the Medicare Chiropractic Services Demonstration. List the four levels of clinical scenarios used in a clinical competency examination for chiropractic.
Moderator:
Christine Goertz, DC, PhD

12:30pm
Re-analysis of budget neutrality of the Medicare Chiropractic Services Demonstration
James Whedon, DC
  
12:48pm
Chiropractic Role In The World Health Organization's Effort Against Tobacco Use
Medhat Alattar, MBBCh,DC, MS and Gary Auerbach, BS, DC, MPH (can
1:06pm
Development and expansion of a global public health promotion effort by chiropractors
John K. Hyland, DC, MPH and Ron Kirk, MA, DC
     
1:24pm
Ensuring the validity of regulatory testing for chiropractic professionals: NBCE's Practice Analysis 2010
Mark G. Christensen, PhD, Martin W. Kollasch, DC and John K. Hyland, DC MPH
     
1:42pm
Performance evaluation of clinical competency for chiropractic practice: The spectrum of decision-making and interdisciplinary cooperation
Judi Gerstung, DC and Margaret Seron, DC
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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